I just love the colours on this card from Maude Lankester's collection. It is a card of a country lane outside the capital of South Australia, Adelaide. One of the better known photographers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century was an Irish immigrant Terrence McGann. Mc Gann specialized in landscapes and I find this a beautiful image. I love the tyre marks on the wet road leading down to that little bridge that crosses the stream. Are they tyre marks of a 1910 car or are they cart marks?
My third photo is added to show you an image of South Australia in 1910. A year later the map would change and South Australia would be divided in two to create the Northern Territory.

His obituary in the Adelaide Advertiser Friday 20 June 1913 reads:
The death occurred at the Adelaide Hospital on Tuesday of Mr. Terrence McGann at the age of 64 years. Mr. McGann was born in county Clare, Ireland, and arrived in South Australia 25 years ago. He was long considered, the most expert outdoor photographer in Adelaide, and many beautiful pictures came from his camera. It was he who took the photographs of the members of the Federal Convention and the journalists who were engaged thereat in Adelaide in April, 1897 and he did similar work in connection with many other historic gatherings. His work was always artistic, and he took a deep pride in it. Many of his best pictures appeared in "The Chronicle."

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vetraio50, 4 years agoMany thanks Sean. Just getting lost in these cards.

toracat, 4 years agoThey look like cart marks. When I was about 10 in Nebraska I saw on TV Wagon Train marks still there from way before 1860! This might sound silly, but that statue of mine, do you think it is a man or a woman? Beautiful lips on it! bye time for tucker!

vetraio50, 4 years agoMany thanks Sean, nldionne, mustangT, miKKo and to you too toracat for those comments.

ho2cultcha, 4 years agoit is a beautiful photo of a country lane! i love adelaide and the surrounding countryside - even though the climate can be mysterious and extreme at times. i was in a dust-storm there in 1980.

vetraio50, 4 years agoMany thanks ho2culture. I remember a heat wave there in the sixties that had bitumen flowing and concrete bending. The City of Churches and heat waves. Those dust storms can be spectacular too! Thanks again for your kind comments!